Improvement in hammers



R.BOEKLEN & G. W. SGHRAMM. HAMMER Patented Nov. 4, 1862.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BOEKLEN, OF BROOKLYN, AND

w. SOHRAMM, OF NEW YORK, N.

-IMPROV EMENT IN HAMMERS.

Spediflcetion forming part of Letters Patent N0. 36S29, dated N ovembef4, 1862.

T0 all whqm)it may cbncern:

Be itknown that we, REINHOLD BOEKLEN, 0f the city 'ofBrooklyn in the county of Kitxgs and- Sttte cf New York and G.. W.

. SCHRAMM, ofithe'cit'y, county, gtn d State of New York, have' im'rented eertain new and nseful Imprwernents in Hammers; and we d0 hereby deelare that the' followiug is a .full clear, and exact desciription of tb'e Same, ref-- erence -being heil to the aecompaLnying d 1;awings, formihg partof this speoification, in

Figure lis atside view 'of a hamm'er5vith our improvements. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a fa'ceview 0f the same.

Similar' letters 0f referenee indicate eorresponding parts in t-he several figure s.

This invention consists in the cotxstrnction of a hammer-head with two faces ab opposite ends and a dem? 011 one side, thereby making -it suitabl e for a greater varie ty 0f uses than any hammers heretofore 'niade.

A is the hammer-head. a and b are the two faces, andc i the c1aw, We propose in all cases t0 make the two faces of different chari acter f61" difierent kinds 0f work, as larger and smaller fiat faces, a flat face and a face rounded in all direetions, a broad flat fa,ce and along narrow faee, 0r a face suitable for driving tacks am]. a face suitable for' picking up taeks by..magnllMhe c1aw is made on one side close to the top and ppsite to the handle B.

0 is the screw-driverfitted to the lower end of the handle B in the Same manner in which a sfsrew-driver iS ordinarily fitted to its handle-that is t0 saydriven t-ightly into a hole provided for it in the handleand into notches in a fe1wle, d; driVen onto the exterior of the handle.[

In this application of the serew-driver, in combination with the hammer, the hammerhead serves as e pmtion 0t' the serew-driver handle and enables a powerful gvasp t0 be had in the use 0fa serew-driver; and,when the hammer has two faees and a claw, as hereinabove described, we obtain with the serew driver an implement suitable for so great a variety of purposes as to render it exceedingly 11 BOEKLEN. G. W. SOHRAMM.

\Vitnessesz JAMES G. (300mm, JOHN VVILLIAMS. 

